The National Retail Federation expects 166 million people, 8 million more than last year, to go shopping on Black Friday weekend. According to spokesperson Brandi Crowe, Haywood Mall is the biggest mall in the state. Friday the mall was filled with thousands of bargain hunters.”This is our Superbowl,” Crowe said. “We will be packed from now until Christmas Eve. Lines this morning show us I think we’ll have a really great holiday season. People here in line well before six a-m to get in and get some crazy doorbusters.”According to Crowe, this year’s crowd is one of the biggest crowds of families she’s seen in years. Kenny Ankerich and his three kids got an early start Black Friday, leaving their home in Hartwell, Georgia, at 5 a.m. Halfway through the day, Ankerich had trouble getting up from the massage chairs.”Just toting bags back and forth back and forth from the truck. So, I’m resting and working them knots out of my back now,” he said. Though their start wasn’t as early, the Dunlaps took advantage of every moment they had together Friday. “It’s been very hard,” said Pamela Dunlap. “In 2020 we were going to go to visit my grandchildren and we got COVID, so we couldn’t. So, we couldn’t do that. And then last year at Thanksgiving somebody else had COVID, so we couldn’t go. So, this is really one of the first holidays when we can just get out.”Dunlap said she felt blessed not only to be out and about, but to also be able to hold her granddaughter again.”Because we’re all together shopping again,” she said. “Altogether as a family again. Just altogether doing the things that we knew, just took for granted. And now they all seem so fresh and new.”
The National Retail Federation expects 166 million people, 8 million more than last year, to go shopping on Black Friday weekend.
According to spokesperson Brandi Crowe, Haywood Mall is the biggest mall in the state. Friday the mall was filled with thousands of bargain hunters.
“This is our Superbowl,” Crowe said. “We will be packed from now until Christmas Eve. Lines this morning show us I think we’ll have a really great holiday season. People here in line well before six a-m to get in and get some crazy doorbusters.”
According to Crowe, this year’s crowd is one of the biggest crowds of families she’s seen in years.
Kenny Ankerich and his three kids got an early start Black Friday, leaving their home in Hartwell, Georgia, at 5 a.m. Halfway through the day, Ankerich had trouble getting up from the massage chairs.
“Just toting bags back and forth back and forth from the truck. So, I’m resting and working them knots out of my back now,” he said.
Though their start wasn’t as early, the Dunlaps took advantage of every moment they had together Friday.
“It’s been very hard,” said Pamela Dunlap. “In 2020 we were going to go to visit my grandchildren and we got COVID, so we couldn’t. So, we couldn’t do that. And then last year at Thanksgiving somebody else had COVID, so we couldn’t go. So, this is really one of the first holidays when we can just get out.”
Dunlap said she felt blessed not only to be out and about, but to also be able to hold her granddaughter again.
“Because we’re all together shopping again,” she said. “Altogether as a family again. Just altogether doing the things that we knew, just took for granted. And now they all seem so fresh and new.”